Re: [O] Always use utf-8 for HTML export (No support for other coding systems)

[Robert Klein]

On 03/03/2013 06:47 PM, Jambunathan K wrote:
> 
> Always use utf-8 for HTML export (No support for other coding systems).
> 
> For or against.  Please register your views.
> 

Against.

Character set of a web document is determined by the /outermost/
"entity".  The outermost entity available is the web server.  If a web
server says, "This document is in iso-8859-1"  (instead of "I don't
care, which is pretty much the norm, today) the document better *is* in
iso-8859-1, or all the beautiful utf-8 characters are looking like Æ-{r
 or so.

Personally I prefer to use utf-8, too.  However, I've had a number of
uncooperative web servers (and operators), where I had to deliver
documents in 8859-1.

Best regards
Robert